Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software

by Greg Parker

This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The book describes how similar "Hubble class" images can be created by amateur astronomers in their back garden using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the "electronic darkroom" is covered in detail as well. A range of telescopes and equipment is considered, from the author’s 11-inch with Hyperstar camera, down to more affordable instruments. Appendices provide links to free software – not available from a single source – and are themselves an invaluable resource.

Genres: Astronomy

177 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2007

Reviews

[Kadri · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is informative and inspirational but the style of it is not for everyone... It's very specific and really aimed at a rather narrow audience. The author introduces his imaging equipment and methods in depth, and one can just generalize everything from it. However this book doesn't really portray deep space Astrophotography as very affordable...